Quotes About Human

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.